Just three weeks before Plasco Energy must meet a city deadline to show it has financing for a proposed waste-to-energy plant, the Citizen has learned the company is now proposing a slightly smaller facility with potentially less capacity.

Nothing improves a city councillor's performance like a credible threat. At last, Ottawa has a bunch of them.
After an election in 2000 that pitted numerous regional councillors against their lower-tier

Visitors to Ottawa will soon be greeted by new signs highlighting the nation's capital as a cycling- and pedestrian-friendly city.
Last year, Ottawa became the province's first city to receive a gold-level

Photos from the 2nd Annual Derby Day hosted by the Capital City Derby Dolls at City Hall in Ottawa, August 2, 2014.
Turbo Tiff (centre) of the Renegade Dames, muscles her way past a slew of Capital Derby Doll's.